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Osmotic Pressure

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Noun

1. osmotic pressure

(physical chemistry) the pressure exerted by a solution necessary to prevent osmosis into that solution when it is separated from the pure solvent by a semipermeable membrane

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Osmotic Pressure

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noun
the pressure necessary to prevent osmosis into a given solution when the solution is separated from the pure solvent by a semipermeable membrane

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Osmotic Pressure

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the pressure exerted by a solvent passing through a semipermeable membrane in osmosis, equal to the pressure that must be applied to the solution in order to prevent passage of the solvent into it

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Osmotic Pressure

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n.
The pressure exerted by the flow of water through a semipermeable membrane separating two solutions with different concentrations of solute.

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